Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1887-02-17
0EORoB ALFRED TOWNSEND ON
THE EVILS OF THE TIMES.

The spectators ruined the hotel inc
ais Of New York. They made mon
for while easy and spent it without 7
sponsibil,ty. The hotels have long BET
given up to the gamblers. Every hot
mas ticker and a grain Of cotton sharp
sometime using the ladies parlor or Il
writing room for his Office so as to be
the midst of the people. A pool room
also appended at the time Of the races.
Why do they not also board and al
commodate q three-card monte and
bunko party and give them special ad
vantages? It would b. just as mora
and polite.
Our hotel is our other home. Pc,
haps We have our children there. Woul'
We invite the gambler and broker HON
to open his game at our house?
The tavern keeper who puts US by tn
side Of a gambler to let u be robbed il
an unfaithfal host. He violates the e.
scnce Of hospitality. His agreement ii
to take care Of US and protect NJ. Instsat
of that he opens the door to our temp
tation.
The two great evils Of American life
are: First, getting money and richie,
without work second, not executing the
laws.
Nearly all the forms Of open vices arc
illegal; laws exist to suppress them.
They pay no attention to the laws.
Specializing is merely gambling. The
whole genius Of speculrtiou is buying
something which VIC never possess and do
not zee.
An Office boy with only one shirt and
one suspendsr tells me that he has just
bought 1000 bushels Of wheat and 500
barrels Of pork.
Where?
At the option brokers' or bucket shop.
He probably stole the money from his
employer, took something out of the Of
fce, book Or other article, and put up
the money at the bucket shop.
If he il found out the employer will
prosecute him. He will say, ut takes
too much time."
So the thief will some day be a broker
himself. He will have . blackboard and
take the quotations from the telegraph
and chalk them up. He will sell you
wheat he never had, cotton he never saw
spare ribs he never smelt Of, oats he new
er looked At, oil he does not know the
location Of and railroad stocks ho never
took from the exchange.
He viii encourage other boys to come
and gamble with him.
People will after while call him
s'great SWELL" what ever that may mean |
He will have ! fat up town and grass
widow in it and buggy. Some custom.
er will leave the buggy with him for a
debt. The swell tailor will mako his
clothes. He will be thief and an i'm.
poster end social nuisance everywhere,
intrusive, plausible, smooth, scheming.
He may even get into church like
Billy Hutchinson. .Ray
Bank presidents and cashiers are al.
ways sought out BY these gamblers be.
cause they have deposits from other peo.
pie and trust funds for orphans and things
70 gamble upon.
Hence We zee people cutting their
'hroats with peuknives all around US.
Yonder is banker at Washington
bleeding to death. I'D Il
Down in New Brunswick gentleman
# kind nature went aud opened his veins
y the bank and then cut his throat open ,
ike hog. II
What did it? |,
The brokcrA MO, !,
Has any broker been arrested and pun.
.hed. y :
None. E's |;
Have the newspapers followed those a
ictims up to the brokers and made any a
sue with the brokers?
None whatever. :
The broker, alias tho gambler, as we p
nd him in New York, is the matter Of al
] the seven deadly sins. o
He is Of all grades aud scarcely one Of y, y
lem good. h,
He may bo an old fashioned fellow fe
ho would put bank president or cash. Sc
: out. CT
! never heard Of a broker like that. ~ y,
More likely be would lay net for III
At bank officer. He would say, show m
uld I get 1t him ?" u tn